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          <h1 class="mb-1">500 Stars</h1>
          <div class="mb-3 text-muted"><small>2022-08-18</small></div>
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          <p>
            <a href="https://ghostfol.io">Ghostfolio</a>, the web-based personal
            finance management software, is celebrating 500 stars on
            <a href="https://github.com/ghostfolio/ghostfolio">GitHub</a>. This
            is a major milestone for this open source project and a good time
            for another
            <a href="../en/blog/2022/01/ghostfolio-first-months-in-open-source"
              >recap</a
            >.
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          <h2 class="h4">Growing Community</h2>
          <p>
            The Ghostfolio community is growing on various platforms and has
            recently passed 100 members on
            <a
              href="https://join.slack.com/t/ghostfolio/shared_invite/zt-vsaan64h-F_I0fEo5M0P88lP9ibCxFg"
              >Slack</a
            >
            as well as 100 followers on
            <a href="https://x.com/ghostfolio_">Twitter</a>. If you have not
            joined yet, this is a good time to make sure you do not miss out on
            any future updates.
          </p>
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          <h2 class="h4">Message Queue: Asynchronous Processing</h2>
          <p>
            Overall
            <a href="https://status.ghostfol.io">stability and robustness</a>
            has increased significantly since the introduction of a
            <a href="https://github.com/OptimalBits/bull">message queue</a>. The
            workers of this robust queue system process jobs, namely gathering
            historical market data, asynchronously in the background to not
            bother the main service.
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          <h2 class="h4">Ready for Web 3.0</h2>
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            The
            <a href="../en/blog/2022/07/ghostfolio-meets-internet-identity"
              >recent integration of Internet Identity</a
            >, a blockchain authentication system, makes Ghostfolio ready for
            Web3. This third iteration of the World Wide Web is the vision of a
            new and better Internet based on decentralized blockchains to give
            power back to the users. <i>Internet Identity</i> created by the
            <a href="https://dfinity.org">Dfinity Foundation</a> enables you to
            sign in securely and anonymously to Ghostfolio without an e-mail
            address, username, or a password. All you need is your device with
            built-in biometric authentication.
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          <h2 class="h4">Break-even Point</h2>
          <p>
            Despite the complicated
            <a [routerLink]="routerLinkMarkets">economic situation</a> at this
            time, the goal set at the beginning of the year to build a
            sustainable business and reach break-even with the SaaS offering (<a
              [routerLink]="routerLinkPricing"
              >Ghostfolio Premium</a
            >) has been achieved. We will continue to leverage the revenue to
            further improve the fully managed cloud offering for our paying
            customers. A new goal we have set for ourselves is to become
            profitable.
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          <h2 class="h4">Outlook</h2>
          <p>
            Besides all the positive accomplishments during the last months,
            there is still a lot of room for improvement. It would be great to
            onboard more contributors who are actively involved in software
            engineering to realize the full potential of open source software.
            If you are a web developer and interested in personal finance,
            please get in touch by e-mail via
            <a href="mailto:hi@ghostfol.io">hi&#64;ghostfol.io</a> or on X
            (formerly Twitter)
            <a href="https://x.com/ghostfolio_">&#64;ghostfolio_</a>. We are
            happy to discuss ideas.
          </p>
          <p>
            We would like to say thank you for all your feedback and support
            since the beginning of this project.
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          <p>
            Off to the next 500 stars!<br />
            Thomas from Ghostfolio
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